Sarkozy dedicated his award to victims of the terrorism of ETA

The France President, Nicolas Sarkozy spent yesterday to the victims of the terrorist group ETA the Collar of the order Insigne of the Golden Fleece, awarded yesterday the King Juan Carlos of Spain i.

"El President (French) tends to associate this decoration to the hundreds of victims of ETA terrorism," said the Elysee Palace said in a statement.

Sarkozy also dedicated the award "to the whole of French who have closely collaborated with the Spanish authorities in order to put an end to the mindless violence perpetrated by ETA for decades".

"Today, his work and efforts are rightly greeted and rewarded", adds the note sent to the media by the Presidency French.

In the communiqué, Sarkozy expressly thanked the award to the King of Spain and the President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who has "worked in the service of friendship" u000a""exceptional that exists between France and Spain".

The Spanish sovereign yesterday awarded the Collar of the Insigne order of the Golden Fleece, the dynastic order of greater prestige in the world, Sarkozy, sample of "the traditional friendship between France and Spain," according to the website of the Palacio de La Zarzuela.

Subsequently, the spokesperson of the Government, José Blanco, explained the decoration responds to its "cooperation and commitment in the fight against terrorism".

The order of the Golden Fleece was founded in 1430 by the Duke of Burgundy on the occasion of his marriage with Isabel Portugal.

Foreign personalities with the fleece include King Carl Gustaf's Sweden and the Grand Duke John I of Luxembourg (1983), Olav V Norway (1984), Japan Akihito, Hussein Jordan, Beatrix of the Netherlands, Margrethe II of Denmark (1985) and Elizabeth II of England (1988).

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